Patents by Inventor Paul E. Halser

Paul E. Halser has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Systems and methods for providing programmable analog classifiers
    Patent number: 8688763
    Abstract: The present invention describes systems and methods to provide programmable analog classifiers. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an analog classifier circuit comprising a bump circuit enabled to store a template vector, wherein the template vector can model a probability distribution with exponential behavior. Furthermore, the bump circuit is enabled to generate an output corresponding to a comparison between an input vector received by the bump circuit and the template vector stored by the bump circuit. Additionally, the analog classifier circuit includes a variable gain amplifier in communication with the bump circuit, and the variable gain amplifier can be adjusted to modify the variance of the template vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng-Yu Peng, Paul E. Halser
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR PROVIDING PROGRAMMABLE ANALOG CLASSIFIERS
    Publication number: 20100079188
    Abstract: The present invention describes systems and methods to provide programmable analog classifiers. An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides an analog classifier circuit comprising a bump circuit enabled to store a template vector, wherein the template vector can model a probability distribution with exponential behavior. Furthermore, the bump circuit is enabled to generate an output corresponding to a comparison between an input vector received by the bump circuit and the template vector stored by the bump circuit. Additionally, the analog classifier circuit includes a variable gain amplifier in communication with the bump circuit, and the variable gain amplifier can be adjusted to modify the variance of the template vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2008
    Publication date: April 1, 2010
    Applicant: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
    Inventors: Sheng-Yu Peng, Paul E. Halser